Attachment for coal-oil cans



(No Model.)

A. E. FOX.

ATTACHMENT FOR GOAL OIL GANS:

No. 325,068. Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

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Warren STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANSEL E. FOX, OF LEAD'VILL'E, COLORADO.

ATTACHMENT FOR COAL-OIL CANS.

CPECIPIECATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,068, dated August 25, 1885.

Application filed April 13, 18V).

i To ail whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANsEL E. Fox, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Leadville, in the county of Lake and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Attachments for Coal- Oil Oans, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the ac companying drawings.

This invention pertains to certain new and useful improvements in attachments for coaloil and other cans for reception of explosive oils, whereby the same are rendered non-explosive; and it consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View in side elevation of an ordinary can having my invention applied thereto and showing the spout partly in section, and Figs. 2 and 3 are detail views.

In carrying out my invention I provide the (No model.)

To further provide againstthe possible pas sage of a flame to the oil and to permit the admission of air, I provide the screw-cap B with a small metallic screen, b, the object of which is obvious. To the center of the said screwcap I pivot a movable cover, 6, which is designed to fit over and operate on said screweap. This movable cover I) has two or more openings or slots provided in its upper surface to register with the openings in the top of the screwcap; and it is also provided with a small stud or projection, 11", for the convenient opening and closing of the same when desired.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with an oil-can having its screw-cap provided with a screen and a movable cover, a spout having a spherical enlargement and a screen, substantially as f shown and described.

2. In combination with an oil-can having its spout provided with a spherical enlargement and a screen, the screw-cap having a screen and a movable cover pivoted thereon, sub stautially as shown and described.

ANSEL E. FOX.

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